Freedom!

OK, so, it's been a while. How are you all?

Me? Well, let's see. Since we last spoke, I've quit my job and just finished moving house - I'm now down south full-time again! Hooray!

All I now need is for summer to actually start... Today's not looking likely, but maybe tomorrow. It's June - is a little sunshine on the Mediterranean coast really too much to ask?

My major tasks over the next week or so are:

• Unpack
• Clean
• Work out how the French unemployment system works
• Launch the web design business I've got floating around my head
• Make lots of shiny things!

These will all, admittedly, be easier to focus on if the weather's not so awesome. But I'd still quite like some sunshine, please...

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I'm home!

First things first, Google Analytics says everyone stopped reading my blog when I changed the template to look prettier. Now I can't imagine many of you being *that* design conscious, but I suppose you might all be and have run away in horror at my poor taste... In case you're still out there, though, does anyone know why GA might have stopped counting my blog views?

Running: Week 3, Day 2, belatedly completed - I've been ill, but the sunshine now I'm home was too good to miss, so I decided to make myself go running. It was harder with hills, but not as bad as I feared!

Wedding preparations are going apace: We now have a dress, shoes, a photographer (my brother's girlfriend, though I think everyone's going to have to volunteer somewhat), a mayor, a venue, a date, at least one witness, and hotel rooms for (most of) his and my family. We have a ring for me, and we will have a ring for him, when I get round to making it. I now have the stuff to do so.

Still left to do:

• writing invitations (anyone reading this before they get married: handwritten invitation letters sound like a great idea. They take a lot of time. Be warned...)
  
• sending invitations
  
• checking Paul has a suit
  
• booking a restaurant
  
• apparently, finding flowers... (Really? Are they totally essential?)
  
• doing something about a wedding list, in the unlikely event anyone wants to give us presents
  

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To Do/Done: wedding edition

To do:

Tell family and friends: Done
Pick a date: Pretty much done
Book the mayor: Done (tentatively)
Find a restaurant for the lunch; work out meal options, wine and champagne: In progress
Find hotel options for people who aren't coming from Nice: In progress
Get contact details for all of our fabulous guests
Write and send out invitations, inc hotel details
Find someone to take photos: Might well be everyone, in a scattergun approach to wedding photography...
Find a dress and shoes
Find a suit and shoes
Ring for Paul: In progress

What am I forgetting, internet? Let me know...

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To Do/Done

This is mostly just a post for me. So feel free to ignore it.

Done already:
Registered with French tax people
Registered with doctor and had appointment
Made appointments for dentist
Bought large amounts of healthy food for the week
Made and listed this bracelet:

To Do:
UK Tax return
Custom 4-in-1 bracelet (when rings arrive)
Photograph and list steel bracelets (when clasps arrive)
Go supply shopping - need more sterling wire (square 20G and round 26Gish) and poss PMC3 clay... (when money allows)
Get blood tests done (when secu sociale number comes through. If secu sociale number comes through.)
Buy pillows (when money allows)

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